Red Hook community members created an emergency plan to cover the 72 HOURS BEFORE AND AFTER an emergency called Ready Red Hook.  

This plan - for all emergencies, not just floods - was created in the aftermath of the Sandy Hurricane, in an effort to be better prepared for the next major event. 

On Saturday, September 13, 2014, a practice event called Ready Red Hook Day occured. More about that in a story from the Red Hook Star Revue here.

No group assumed responsibility for updating the plan or conducting drills or even for hosting the webpage linked here. RHI hosted the website originally, then did not want to anymore, so we did. Then RHI took it back. As of August 2024, we found the link dead.

At this point, the plan is largely a historical artifact of Red Hook's response to Sandy and mentioned here to let people know that this plan was developed.

PortSide has some of the planning documents. If you want to know more, please send us an email.

It was revived in a different form soon after Covid hit when Councilman Carlos Menchaca said it should be deployed, leading to a weekly Zoom for the first  months of the pandemic. PortSide hosted the call until late June 2023. We are not sure how much later the Zoom continued.  It was more of a report-back space for nonprofits and engaged individuals than a team effort to create new solutions.  During those first months of the pandemic, there was also a weekly Zoom for nonprofits and one for businesses.